Biography of designer Tom Ford

Tom Ford was born on August 27, 1961 in Texas, Austin. After school, he went to New York, where he initially studied art history, but without completing his studies in this specialty, he begins to study architecture at the Parson School. Then he leaves for Paris, where he continues his studies. In 1986 he returned to New York and began her design career under the guidance of Katie Hardwicke. Then he collaborates with Peri Ellis.

In 1990, Tom Ford moved to Milan, where works for Gucci, in a year he will head this fashion house. The Gucci house was quite successful under Tom Ford. And Tom Ford himself was named Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1996. In 2001, Tom Ford was named the Best Fashion Designer in Womenswear by Time magazine.

In 2004, he opened his own Tom Ford Fashion House. In 2007 - the first boutique. Soon he also took up the development of perfumery. One of the most famous fragrances from Tom Ford is the Black Orchid fragrance, it is for this fragrance that the black orchid was first created and grown by scientists. Recently, Tom Ford has also taken up the filming of films. So his film "A Lonely Man" in 2009 at the Venice Film Festival was nominated for the "Golden Lion" award.

The man with whom Tom Ford has been living for many years, more than 20 years, is journalist Richard Buckley, who for some time headed the men's version of Vogue magazine - Vogue Hommes International.

Tom Ford has the image of a rather arrogant, cynical person who loves a "sweet life". It is famous for scandalous advertising. And the photographs from the Vanity Fair magazine, the issue of which was published under his editorship, with the participation of naked Scarlett Johansson and Tom Ford dressed in a strict black suit, will be remembered by the fashion world for a long time.

But sometimes we are better than our reputation, perhaps this is exactly the case of Tom Ford. In 2011, he was interviewed for the GQ Russia magazine, according to which he was recognized as the person of the year. A very interesting interview.

Tom Ford on beauty: “Genuine beauty is something else. The spirit that is inside. ... Body beauty combined with a wonderful spirit is dazzling! "

Tom Ford about himself today: “I don't take any drugs. I do not smoke cigarettes... … I get up in the morning, go to the gym, then go to the office, and in the evening at home I will have a quite everyday dinner. ... When people get to know me, they are a pretty nice person, but his world is boring. "

And about his own image of a connoisseur of the sweet life: “This is only a part of me - my image. I always forget that I'm famous. "

According to Tom Ford, he tries to make really beautiful, high-quality clothes, which, perhaps, someone will wear in fifty years, saying that my grandmother, or my grandfather, also wore it.

As a child, Tom Ford was not popular among his classmates, he was shy, he was always among the laggards in sports games, but as he grew up, he became a real handsome man, girls began to like him. Maybe that's why he became a fashion designer, because from childhood he thought that if you put on something like that, people will begin to treat you differently. But the idea and the firm intention to become a fashion designer came to Tom Ford in Leningrad, while studying in Paris in the mid-1980s, he went on an excursion to the USSR - Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad. In Leningrad, he poisoned himself with something and was lying in a hotel to him and this idea came to him. After returning from the Soviet Union, Tom Ford finally gave up trying to become an architect.

About his film “A Lonely Man” and its main character: “He understands his connection with the Universe. He understands that there is no great love. He is peaceful. And he dies. He understood everything, he achieved peace in his soul and moved to another world, something like that. "

However, Tom Ford to some extent agrees with the fact that today in world fashion sadness came, and fashion - it only reflects this world.And in our world there is sorrow.

“Perhaps now is the time of global sadness. Even when we do not deliberately think: “I’ll make a gloomy collection,” this sadness somehow penetrates, affects. And it reflects on what people want to wear today. "